Onomatopoeia

joined 11 months ago
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

To be clear, brake clean isn't removing any rust.

For welding, some kind of grinding is definitely occurring.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Isn't that partly because the US has like 52 sets of law (50 states, DC, Fed) and maybe more (County/Parish, etc)?

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Installing apps in Windows is a privileged process. This keeps the average user from corrupting a system.

The only users that can install apps are ones with Install Apps permission (I forget what it's actually called). Anyone in the Admin group has this. The group Users does not.

In a business/domain environment, very few people get local admin rights. For a home user best practice would be to run as a User or at most Power User, and only do admin level stuff when logged in as an Admin.

No one does this, of course. (I certainly don't, even though I know better. It's just easier to not do risky things and maintain backups).

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Exactly.

Phones don't age the way they used to. For most people, new phones offer little.

If they'd learn to simply reset it when it goes wonky from installing a million things...

I'm hard on phones from a software perspective - I do a lot of testing because I'm the family IT. I've always used 2 year old phones. My current phone is a Pixel 5 running a Lineage fork, and it works great. I'll replace it when hardware (other than screen battery) dies.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

Because people like to keep their jobs?

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yep, I've had 2 only because it was the hardware I wanted.

Oh, they were very nice to hold, sleek, futuristic. And both immediately got cases so I could hold the damn things.

The only reason we want thinner phones is because of material like this causes us to put cases on them, making them wider.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, it's called fructose.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Plastic - plastic is what I want.

I have an old Moto 5 that's pretty thin with a plastic back wraps around the sides and snaps on. It has a nice texture that's easy to grip. It's a brilliant piece of functional design. If only they'd given it a better screen/processor I'd be using it today.

Hell, what does almost everyone do with these premium glass phones? Put a synthetic cover in it so you can grip it and give it some drop protection.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And?

You conveniently ignore the stats, in does happen, instead introducing a goalpost move, aka sophistry, in an attempt to "win" an argument, or at least derail OPs point.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe -2 points 3 days ago

Where were they xenophobic?

They used statistics to support their point, you used insults to attempt to win argument (aka sophistry).

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 days ago

Make pommes Boulangerie from scratch.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Carriage bolts are the worst, for sure.

I agree, drill it out, keep some replacements on hand, and always reassemble with anti-seize or the weakest loctite (they make some for just this situation, to prevent nuts from seizing but also be easy to remove). Hell, even blue loctite would work, as it breaks down with just a little heat.

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